Karka Exterminator Achievement Requiring Night-time Map is Against ArenaNet’s Philosophy of Respecting Players’ Time
I’ve spent the past hour scouring LFG for players on a night-time map, along with many others. This is ridiculous. We want to play the game, not sit around waiting for the sun to set.
I don’t think the karka extermination achievement ever goes away, so I see no reason not to take your time with it. More generally, the entire game (and in fact all MMO’s) are essentially Skinner boxes, purposely designed to sink your time into oblivion as you run a virtual treadmill. GW2 is one of the more casual grinders out there. Look at it for what it is. You don’t have to grind out Princess or Mawdrey II or whatever. Do it because you choose to do it.
Here’s your problem: “All zones obeying the day-night cycle are synchronized to the same daily schedule.” Meaning if you’re in a map and it’s day time it will also be day time in all the other maps and therefore the LFG tool can’t help you.
On the plus side this also means you don’t have to sit in LA waiting, you can continue playing in whatever zone you want* and when it changes to night time you can go back to LA.
And since the cycle is 70 minutes of daytime followed by 40 minutes of night if your post is accurate you had, at absolute most, 10 more minutes to wait and then 40 minutes to finish whatever you were doing and get to LA.
Edit: forgot my footnote.
*There are some exceptions, maps where it’s always day or always night. These are listed on the wiki page.
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Here’s your problem: “All zones obeying the day-night cycle are synchronized to the same daily schedule.” Meaning if you’re in a map and it’s day time it will also be day time in all the other maps and therefore the LFG tool can’t help you.
On the plus side this also means you don’t have to sit in LA waiting, you can continue playing in whatever zone you want* and when it changes to night time you can go back to LA.
And since the cycle is 70 minutes of daytime followed by 40 minutes of night if your post is accurate you had, at absolute most, 10 more minutes to wait and then 40 minutes to finish whatever you were doing and get to LA.
Edit: forgot my footnote.
*There are some exceptions, maps where it’s always day or always night. These are listed on the wiki page.
Thank you, finally something helpful from someone. Really appreciate it. Too bad I can’t say the same for most of the other responses here.
Here’s your problem: “All zones obeying the day-night cycle are synchronized to the same daily schedule.” Meaning if you’re in a map and it’s day time it will also be day time in all the other maps and therefore the LFG tool can’t help you.
On the plus side this also means you don’t have to sit in LA waiting, you can continue playing in whatever zone you want* and when it changes to night time you can go back to LA.
And since the cycle is 70 minutes of daytime followed by 40 minutes of night if your post is accurate you had, at absolute most, 10 more minutes to wait and then 40 minutes to finish whatever you were doing and get to LA.
Edit: forgot my footnote.
*There are some exceptions, maps where it’s always day or always night. These are listed on the wiki page.
Thank you, finally something helpful from someone. Really appreciate it. Too bad I can’t say the same for most of the other responses here.
You didn’t ASK for helpful information, you just came in and complained about the situation.
Necro Main Forever!
((helping out non-thinkers since 1989))
Karka Exterminator Achievement Requiring Night-time Map is Against ArenaNet’s Philosophy of Respecting Players’ Time
I’ve spent the past hour scouring LFG for players on a night-time map, along with many others. This is ridiculous. We want to play the game, not sit around waiting for the sun to set.
You know what I did while waiting? Do that stupid ridiculous no checkpoint JP that punishes you if you did not concentrate enough when you are jumping from platform to platform.
You have my sympathies, but at least you’re actively trying to accomplish the challenge instead of having to wait until the right time comes along before you can actually start the challenge.
Consider it the “Bloodborne of Jumping Puzzles”, might make you feel better. At least when you do complete it, you’ll feel a greater sense of accomplishment.
You forgot to mention that this kind of hunt is generally not fun at all.
Then again, since they want you to spend hours finding and shooting all the critters, they don’t respect your time anyway, so whatever about night time.
